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Kelvin Davis questions Māori housing plan

The Māori Party’s housing plan to put more Māori into more homes has been a complete failure with fewer than five loans granted per year, says Labour’s Maori Development spokesperson Kelvin Davis.

New funding for emergency housing in Auckland

Auckland council’s Finance and Performance Committee approved funding of $2 million to the James Liston Hostel in the Auckland CBD to enhance the quality and quantity of emergency housing for rough sleepers and homeless people.The funding will come from the City Centre Targeted Rate with the full support of the Auckland City Centre Advisory Board.

The Property Institute wants LVR exemption for first home buyers

Property Institute of New Zealand Chief Executive, Ashley Church, has repeated his call for the Reserve Bank to exempt first home buyers from the Loan-to-value restrictions following news that more than one million kiwis are now locked out of home ownership.

Geoff Simmons on ghost houses in Queenstown

The focus and debate lately has been on Auckland, which is bursting at the seams with population growth and an average housing market topping $1m. However, there is one area of the country that is facing an even bigger affordability crisis – the Queenstown-Lakes District.

Northcote development to boost housing supply

The Government will redevelop 300 existing Housing New Zealand (HNZ) properties into about 1200 new homes in Northcote, Ministers Bill English and Dr Nick Smith have announced.

Government should address the demand side of housing crisis

Leading Environmental law firm, Berry Simons, is calling on the Government to consider the need to address housing demand, rather than focusing only on bringing more supply to the market, in its bid to curb Auckland’s severe housing shortage.

CHA newsletter 15 September, 2016

In this newsletter we have more information on events for the sector: NZCID Social Housing Funding Forum – 27 September in Auckland, National Māori Housing Conference, Social Investment in Community Housing: moving beyond traditional grant making and the panel discussion and CHA annual general meeting; plus research, news and events of interest to the community housing sector.

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Further tenancy review exemptions to be considered

Tenancy reviews determine whether a person or family still needs public housing and makes sure they are in a house that meets their current needs. They are on hold until the end of June. “While public housing is not intended to be a house for life, it’s important we...

Govt announces 3-4k new homes in first major KiwiBuild move

Some 29.3 hectares of bare and developed land will be acquired in an arrangement that will see the Crown develop the area in concert with iwi of the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau collective, an urban Maori representative body that has held rights of first refusal...

​Q+A: Minister Phil Twyford interviewed by Corin Dann

It is located at the Unitec site in Mt Albert. ‘It’s going to be the site of an exciting new urban development project that will see probably between 3000 and 4000 new homes built there.’ I would hope that we’d see between 30 and 40% KiwiBuild affordable homes for...

KiwiBuild can’t do it alone, says CHA

Chief Executive Scott Figenshow says today’s announcement the Government is buying Unitec’s Mt Albert campus site to build up to 4000 homes is a great step towards ensuring all New Zealanders are well-housed The development will be a mix of affordable KiwiBuild homes...

Targeted housing support for Mangere

“While this project was initiated under the previous government, the current government welcomes its opening. More public housing means less families in desperate living conditions. “The five homes in this development will cater to mainly Maori and Pacific families....

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